I’m not a huge baseball fan like my husband, moves a bit too slowly for me--but I do love a good competition and can’t resist watching a fairy-tale match-up of underdogs in any sport. And boy was this [Read more...]
The feelings wash the same. The thankfulness gushes from my very pores. The chagrin over the excess in my stateside life overwhelms. It’s only been a year since I walked the rutted roads of [Read more...]
The atmosphere is threaded with tense excitement, Chatter bounces and vibrates, My heart races. And then as the shaggy buffalo mascot beats the center court drum to amp up the crowd [Read more...]
I don't feel very thankful some days. In fact, sometimes when my guard is down and I listen to the little whisper, “This is bad, you need to do something, say something, fix something…" I feel a [Read more...]
It was a rag-tag mushroom with a spindly stem on three wheels. The once canvas umbrella covered with plastic tarps, hovered above the ancient bicycle, protecting the tiny man and his basket of [Read more...]
In another life path, I knew we would have been friends. The minute I gazed on his smiling countenance, I fell for his twinkling eyes in a face that wore its wrinkles well. Lines of a life well [Read more...]
Her face drew me, Once beautiful, now lined with years of toil. Her eyes were weary with an unmasked sadness that captivated me. Resignation and hopelessness cloaked her every step. As she [Read more...]
I’m already grumbling. As I pull into the parking lot of Christmas madness, Cars are parked across the street, Cars are parked on the grass, Cars are poised to zoom into any available [Read more...]
At first I snickered at the thought of such audaciousness. What kind of person would presume to tell God what to do? Then I sobered as I realized the truth in my own life. There it was, In stark [Read more...]
I sit on the lush creek bank listening to the roaring mountain stream. The mountain cabin with smoke thinly trailing from the chimney, is backlit by the rising sun which chases away the chill. Taking [Read more...]